God Must Be Omniscient

God alone is perfect. God alone knows everything. But if God really knows everything, why isn't the world different? Why doesn't? Why doesn't He stop horrible things from happening? Ultimately, these questions, and others like them, serve no other point but to discredit God. These questions all come down to a core belief: God either exists, or He doesn't. To exist as God means to be the perfect, supreme being. Believers accept this truth, while non-believers reject it. God does exist, and He is all knowing, but how or why God works the way He does is not a mechanism that we are meant to understand. We are finite. We were born, and we will die. We exist in a finite space for a finite time. Our God, however, is infinite. He was not born, and He will not die. God exists in all space and all time. It's not possible for the limited to understand the limitless. It's simply isn't possible, nor is it important.

It is important for believers to understand they serve the omniscient(all knowing) God because, as Charles Hodge writes, "[A perfect] being cannot be ignorant of anything; his knowledge can neither be increased nor diminished... Unless God were thus omniscient, He could not judge the world in righteousness." We know that our God is just, and we know that our God is righteous. Because we know these things, we know that our God will judge righteously. In order for God to judge righteously, He must be capable to judge righteously.

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